Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.

As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.